Antonakos
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press; Distributed in the United States by National Book Network
Published: November 25, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781555951641
Subjects: Art styles: c 1960 -; Individual artists; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Multi-Media Art; Art & Art Instruction; Sculpture; Art; Neon lighting in art; Individual Artist; Art / General; General; 1926-; Antonakos, Stephen,; Catalogs
Description: "Stephen Antonakos has been a pioneer in the use of neon in fine art for nearly forty years. Having "discovered" neon in 1960, he quickly made it his primary medium. His non-objective, geometric work has involved sculpture and environments; large-scale architectural commissions, both interior and outdoors; wall panels that combine neon with paint and metal leaf; and, most recently, meditation rooms and chapels. Antonakos "draws" with light and, uniquely, uses it to define space.

He sees neon also as a source of poetry, attempting in his works to evoke spirituality, to create "the possibility for a kind of higher consciousness." He manages to turn viewers of his art into participants in a new kind of abstract experience of light."--BOOK JACKET.